Negative Rates Series: Another on the (Nor) way
Mar 17, 2016 12:25 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Central Bankers love affairs with negative rates these days are no biggie, still its a news when despite some adverse reaction in the market to negative rates another one inches towards it. Today, Norways central bank,...
FED Hike Aftermath Series: hike probabilities review
Mar 17, 2016 10:37 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Back in December, after FED hiked rates by 25 basis points, Market was pricing two more hikes in 2016, while FEDs dot-plot was predicting four. Since then lot has happened. As market faced heavy turmoil in January and...
FED Hike Aftermath Series: Dot-plot magic downs Dollar
Mar 17, 2016 09:42 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
FEDs dot plot, which represents policymakers expectation of future rates going forwards is working its magic but not in favor of Dollar, this time around. Reason is simple, all of Federal Open Market committee (FOMC)...
Mar 17, 2016 07:54 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Bank Indonesia is expected to discuss the rupiah during its policy meeting today. The rupiah has boosted with the help of a turn in market sentiment since the start of 2016. Furthermore, the central bank had used the...
FED hike aftermath series: FOMC projections show recent inflation stirrings not enough
Mar 17, 2016 06:54 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
When FED vice chair commented weeks back that early stirrings of inflation visible and he is now more confident that inflation will be approaching FEDs 2% medium term goal, market participants might have thought FED to be...
SNB policy action today: fireworks unlikely
Mar 17, 2016 06:26 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Swiss National Bank will announce its monetary policy decisions at 8:30 GMT today. Economic conditions Switzerland GDP is around $ 701 billion however growth rate has sharply slowed down. As of latest quarterly...
BoE’s MPC likely to vote unanimously to keep policy unchanged
Mar 16, 2016 12:32 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
BoEs recent Inflation Report meeting had given the key opportunity every quarter to update its macro forecasts and also its policy message. This was a very dovish message. The projections are conditioned on the market OIS...
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